Well, my video card returned to my doorstep with a bent backplate. It seems MSI’s idea of packaging an item is to just put it in shielded wrapping and pop it in a box to flop around. Even if it does work I’m going to complain to them. There is no excuse to package an item that poorly. It’s like people don’t care anymore.
If that wasn’t bad enough my motherboard arrived. Good news was that they did a great job packaging it, they included everything and I mean EVERYTHING. It all seemed so promising until I found over 11 pins bent in the processor socket. The seller claimed that it had “light socket damage” but mentioned nothing about the socket pins being damaged. I contacted the seller and complained about it. He told me that it was in perfect working condition, so I decided to test it for shits and giggles and sure enough he was right… But only if you used memory in the first triple-channel bank. Once you loaded both triple-channel banks I got 128 errors within the first five minutes of running memtest86.
Turns out he didn’t fully test each slot to see if it would pass. I’ll be sending the mobo back tomorrow since they don’t have another motherboard I could use. I’ve ordered a replacement from somewhere else. Hopefully I have better luck with this one. It should arrive sometime next week alongside my SSD.
On the brightside my Xeon processor arrived and it’s working with flying colors. Now if everything else could come together…